SketchUp for Geoscientists - Google SketchUp Workshop: Modeling, Visualizing, and Illustrating - page 261

• Deleteonecurvetomakea200-m-thicksand.
• Drawtwostraightlinesfromthecurvetothesquarebasetocreate
a face.
• Push-Pull(Copy)theface2000mtocreatethelowersurface.
• Repeatforthenextthreesurfaces,drawlines,andpush-pull.
• Drawalinetocreatetheoilandthefaceoftheblockmodel.
• Push-Pull(Copy)theoilandthefaceoftheblockmodel.
• Usematerialstocolorthemodel.
• Adda3DgridusingtheRubyscriptGrid3d.rbormesh_additions.rb.
• Addadimensiontothegrid.
• Importamapcompassfromthe3Dwarehouse.
Step 2: Publish the Models for Visualization in
Google Earth
Goals : To publish petroleum models.
Inputs : Generic petroleum models.
Tools : SketchUp, 3D Warehouse, and Google Earth.
The aim was to enable potential partners to visualize where the potential
petroleum traps were in Monitor Energy's Kyrgyzstan exploration permits
using Google Earth. This involved adding the World Geodetic System
1984 (WGS84) latitude and longitude coordinates of the location and
the north direction of the model by typing the coordinates in the Model
Info > Location (See Figure 15.4). The resulting models were exported from
SketchUp using File > Export > 3D Model into kmz format and viewed in
Google Earth.
FiG 15.4
I published the resulting models in the 3D warehouse under the collection
Geology 3D petroleum models under my user name “dinosur” (http://groups.
google.com/group/geology-3d-petroleum-models).